District Superintendent Jim Scanlon said the district has all the approvals from the board and township it needs and it is looking to begin construction this spring sometime around March or April, depending on the weather.

In addition to updates to the existing classrooms, the renovations will include a small addition that will replace modular classrooms.

All ongoing and future renovations are being planned to eliminate the need of modular classroom space.

Scanlon said it’s the goal of the district to have the first wave of classrooms completed by Christmas of this year with the renovations completed by the fall of 2014.

Currently Westtown-Thornbury and Penn Wood elementary schools are being renovated with both expected to be finished sometime this summer. Renovations at Fern Hill Elementary will follow East Bradford.

Last year the district discussed the possibility of moving to a nine school plan, which would have phased out one of the elementary schools. While no official meeting or discussion was held about what school would have been closed, parents from East Bradford spoke out at board meetings in support of keeping the school.

School officials first discussed evaluating the possibility of a nine-school renovation plan in September. That idea was suggested by a community budget task force last year as a way to save money.

Because of overcrowding in some elementary schools, the district will begin working on a redistricting plan in fall 2013. Scanlon said the redistricting plan will be implemented after renovations of East Bradford, in about 2016.